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...ine and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search ...

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...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ... ... Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gul... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL ................................................................. ..................................... 304 From a self centered point of view animals have rights. .................................................... 3... ...s. .................................................... 308 Self centered—animals should not have rights ............................................... ........................................................... 311 GOD YES animals have rights .......................................................... ... on Godfrey and the people flew their minds to the hospital and correctly described Godfrey in the hospital. So then I volunteered. But I cheated. I... ...ted on another friend who looked nothing like the first. The magic people described the one I was thinking about, not the one they were supposed to ... ... belief is from the Bible in Genesis 3 verses17 through 19, where Adam is described as having disobeyed God by eating the forbidden fruit of the tre...

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...ildren we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture which went hand in hand with their social structure. It has been...

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...horus by Millennium Books [an imprint of E.J. Dwyer (Australia) Pty. Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with text reset, various emendations, and new... ...publication rights. Copyright © 1995 and 2006 by Donald Broadribb. Typeset in Times New Roman and Futura, using the program Mellel, with an Apple iMac... ...mpathy of All Things” is based on a lecture given at the Eranos Conference in Ascona in 1955 and was published in Eranos 24-1955, © Eranos Foundation,... ...s) are, of course, in practice not as clearly delineated as they have been described here. Individual groups, and particularly individual adherents of... ...d Twilight of Zoroastrianism, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 1961. 15. As described in such literature as the Bible, in the book of Exodus. THE RELIG... ...e best of our abilities, the sufferings of others. Gautama is fre- quently described as The Compassionate Buddha. He instituted a system of social ref... ...dha; that is, avoidance of any kind of violence including violence towards animals (an avoidance that necessarily requires the adoption of vegetariani... ... observance of basic morality including: no killing—either of people or of animals— truthfulness, honesty, generosity, an ascetic way of life and—in m... ... God, returns from the experience with the feeling 88. Mythological winged animals, frequent in ornamentation of religious buildings. 89. “Yahweh” is ...

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...first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books....

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...In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or fashion a needle, a knife, or a spear. He first blesses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name ev...

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...From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of cra...

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... Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make se... ...and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking... ...s, dolphins, and seals.  Our lack of body hair—again similar to aquatic animals.  Greasy waterproofing skin.  Very tiny webbing between the fi... ...h disproportionately big brains without having lived primarily on aquatic animals and plants from shallow fresh and coastal waters. Dr. Crawford... ...llows the air that powers our sound system to pass through. Most other animals’ voice boxes sit upright behind the tongue and into the back of the... ...ler Son of a poor village teacher, Ottmar Mergenthaler was born May 11, 1854, in Germany about a hundred miles southeast of Mainz. That was the sa... ...ionize computing. In a 1945 Atlantic Monthly article ―As We May Think,‖ he described a theoretical machine he called a ―memex.‖ He targeted its mi...

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...irst Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books. This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves ...

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...Way back in the fifteenth century a man named Johann Gutenberg invented the ?printing press. More than 400 years passed before Ottmar Mergenthaler found a way in the late 1880s to mechanize that historic invention. Then, less than a ...

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...t Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make se... ...and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking... ...s, dolphins, and seals.  Our lack of body hair—again similar to aquatic animals.  Greasy waterproofing skin.  Very tiny webbing between the fi... ...h disproportionately big brains without having lived primarily on aquatic animals and plants from shallow fresh and coastal waters. Dr. Crawford a... ... allows the air that powers our sound system to pass through. Most other animals’ voice boxes sit upright behind the tongue and into the back of the... ...haler Son of a poor village teacher, Ottmar Mergenthaler was born May 11, 1854, in Germany about a hundred miles southeast of Mainz. That was the sa... ...ionize computing. In a 1945 Atlantic Monthly article ―As We May Think,‖ he described a theoretical machine he called a ―memex.‖ He targeted its micr...

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...ongest running independent newspaper at Williams is the Williams Record, a weekly broadsheet paper published on Wednesdays. The newspaper was founded in 1885, and now has a weekly circulation of 3,000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the...

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...wns entirely suo- oessful, and despite its humorous side, tied a new itnot in tlie bond of ail Williams men. The parade, the fireworks, the transparen... ...parts of a cus- tom tliftt is no empty formalitj. The Parade 1910 gathered in front of the opera house shortly after 7 o'clock, clad in night-shirts, ... ...low- ing the drag was the North Adams " band," and then came the fresh men in a blaze of fireworks. The parade marched up Main street to the Greylock ... ...f and the clo.se guard- ing in the second, after a disagree- able incident described and dis- cussed in otlier columns. The victory over Wesleyan the ... ...rds, Taylor, Westbrook, Wood. AMONG THE CANNIBALS Missions in theSouth Sea Described by Dr. Pratt The fifth of Dr. Pratt's series of lectures on " Mis... ...with the Internationa! Congress of Geologists in 1906. The three volcanoes described are those of Coliraa, Toluca and the cinder cones of the taanting... ...oken to the sled are fast and tireless. Beside the dogs, no other domestic animals are seen. The hoir seal is a very important economic geod for the p... ...ressing the chairman of the Comuiissiun on Admissions. " Mutual Aid Amongf Animals "The Principle of Mutual Aid as EsempliBed in Animal Life" wasthe t... ...l atten- tion was fooussed on the struggle for place and food to which all animals are subjected. Nature, "read in fang and claw", seems to have quite...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey, th... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... .... And this continued till Mr. Waterton* changed the relations between the animals. The mode of escaping from the reptile he showed to be not by runni... ...ot by running away, but by leaping on its back booted and spurred. The two animals had misunderstood each other. The use of the crocodile has now been... ...he granddaughter of a crocodile, awakens a dreadful host of semi-legendary animals—grif- fins, dragons, basilisks, sphinxes—till at length the whole v... ...name in a line of Peter Pindar’s (Dr Wolcot) fifty years back, where he is described as “Kempis Tom, Who clearly shows the way to Kingdom Co... ...a con- flict of unparalleled grandeur. These honorary distinctions are all described circumstantially in the First or introductory Section (‘The Glory... ...ike sec- tion of the road, six hundred yards long, under the solemn lights described, with lofty trees meeting overhead in arches. The guard’s horn, a...

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...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 squar...

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 5 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Five is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...se of put- ting an end to slavery agitation. On the fourth day of January, 1854, Judge Douglas introduced the Kansas-Nebraska bill. He initiated a new... ...introduced into the Senate of the United States on the 4th day of January, 1854, settled the slavery question forever! Perhaps he can tell us how that... ...ill read you a few extracts from a speech that was made by me in Peoria in 1854. It was made in reply to one of Judge Douglas’s speeches. (Mr. Lincoln... ... came into the Union. It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up. There were some schools, so ca... ...d wrote out this paper. J. W . CRISFIELD. We were present at the interview described in the foregoing paper of Mr. Crisfield, and we certify that the ...

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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few ...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melan... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...e of his last letters to one of the donors. His prowess at cricket must be described in the words of his cousin, Arthur Duke Coleridge, who was at thi... ...F MER WSHIP OF MER WSHIP OF MER WSHIP OF MER WSHIP OF MERT T T T TON. 1852—1854. ON. 1852—1854. ON. 1852—1854. ON. 1852—1854. ON. 1852—1854. IN THE SU... ...t be called to minister in some great English manufacturing town. Early in 1854, it became known that the Bishop of New Zealand and Mrs. Selwyn were a... ...r which makes the distances look distant indeed.’ This trip, so cheerfully described, was rather a pull on the frame which had yet to become seasoned ... ...med to recognise each cottage and its humble inmates, so faithfully had he described his old people and haunts. ‘One thing that specially impressed me... ... that anything that introduces European customs is no use yet. Pictures of animals are the best things. One or two of a railway, a great bridge, a vie...

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...Introduction: Immediately after Lincoln?s re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the lib...

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 1 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume One is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State ... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...850 was rudely broken by the introduc- tion of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill in 1854. The repeal of the Missouri Compromise, opening the Territories of the... ...spect of the tortured wood turtle to com- pose an essay against cruelty to animals in general, so the aspect of other cases of suffering and wrong wro... ... forever excluded from the Northwest Territory, was ruthlessly repealed in 1854, by a Congress elected in the interests of the slave power, the intent... ...itings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol One to which he had devoted his life, well described the proc- lamation as a “great historic event, sublime in its mag... ... judgment bearing date “1828” and in other respects differing from the one described; and that he is asserting that no such assignment as the one copi...

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...Introduction: Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, ?the Russian novel,? not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil?evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpiec...

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...during his lifetime, quite as much as the public has time or inclination to read; and his surviving friends are apt to show more zeal than discretion in dragging forth from his closed desk such undeveloped offspring of his mind as he himself had left to silence. Literature has never been redundant with authors who sincerely undervalue their own productions; and the sagacio...

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...NY OF THE INTERVIEW OF PRINCES ..................................................... 104 CHAPTER XIV THAT MEN ARE JUSTLY PUNISHED FOR BEING OBSTINATE IN THE DEFENCE OF A FORT THAT IS NOT IN REASON TO BE DEFENDED .......................................................................... 105 CHAPTER XV OF THE PUNISHMENT OF COWARDICE .............................................

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...ouse exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought together so widely scattered a collection--a difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a p...

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...re to the author before he can foresee what reception the public, our great present judge, will accord to it. Feeling almost certain of your sympathy in my pleasure, I dedicate the book to you. Ought it not to belong to you as the tithe formerly belonged to the Church in memory of God, who makes all things bud and fruit in the fields and in the intellect?...

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... . . . . . 199 Ktaadn 1 Ktaadn O N THE 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine, by way of the rai... ...he railroad and steamboat, intending to accompany a relative of mine engaged in the lumber trade in Bangor, as far as a dam on the west branch of the ... ...lumber trade in Bangor, as far as a dam on the west branch of the Penobscot, in which property he was interested. 1 From this place, which is about on... ...e sluices. We filed into the rude logger’s camp at this place, such as I have described, without ceremony, and the cook, at that moment the sole occupa... ...tastic rocks rising here and there from its surface, made a scene not easily described. It has left such an impression of stern, yet gentle, wildness ... ...it erally, covered every square rod on the sides of the mountain; and these animals are probably more numerous there now than ever before, being driv... ...aid that they can step over a five feet gate in their ordinary walk. They are described as exceedingly awkward looking animals, with their long legs an... ...te in their ordinary walk. They are described as exceedingly awkward looking animals, with their long legs and short bodies, making a ludicrous figure ... ...tious rites, — to be inhabited by men nearer of kin to the rocks and to wild animals than we. We walked over it with a certain awe, stopping, from tim...

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Excerpt: Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau.

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant, the Pennsylvani... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... at that time a single habi- tation, cultivated field, or herd of domestic animals, between Corpus Christi and Matamoras. It was necessary, therefore,... ...r the army, and part rations of grain for the artillery horses and all the animals taken from the north, where they had been accus- tomed to having th... ...or mules at from eight to eleven dollars each. The smugglers furnished the animals, and took their pay in goods of the description before mentioned. I... ...t to the city, the point where the aqueduct turns at a right angle. I have described 82 Personal Memoirs the defences of this position before. There ... ...us and them. When we reached the south-west corner of the enclosure before described, I saw some United States troops pushing north through a shallow ... ...trate as if dead. The bull was then lassoed and killed in the manner above described. Men came in and car- ried the dead man off in a litter. When the...

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... the great religious books of the world. Though the youngest of the epoch-making works belonging to this class of literature, it yields to hardly any in the wonderful effect which it has produced on large masses of men. It has created an all but new phase of human thought and a fresh type of character. It first transformed a number of heterogeneous desert tribes of the Ara...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Koran trans. Rev. J. M. Rodwell, Introduction by Rev. G. Ma... ...oing student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... Sprenger ingenuously suggests that Muhammad’s Jewish in- formant may have described Pharaoh as rich in neçyb, i.e., fortresses; whereas, in Ar., naçy... ...e have created for them among the things which our hands have wrought, the animals of which they are masters? And that we have subjected them unto the... ... labour, Who patiently endure, and put their trust in their Lord! How many animals are there which provide not 15 their own food! God feedeth them an... ...n mountains lest it should move with you; 5 and He hath scattered over it animals of every sort: and from the Heaven we send down rain and cause ever... ... the Cave of Hira, to the north and west of which there is a prospect thus described by Burckhardt (T ravels, p. 176). “The country before us had a dr... ...shall follow the Apostle, the unlettered 32 Prophet– whom they shall find described with them in the Law and Evangel. What is right will he enjoin th...